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2012 Schaumburg Boomers All-Stars. The Schaumburg Boomers are a professional baseball team based in Schaumburg, Illinois. The Boomers compete in the Frontier League (FL) as a member of the West Division in the Midwest Conference and have won four league championships since their founding in 2012. They are the Frontier League's team with the ...
Bob Horner is the only player to go directly to MLB and win a Rookie of the Year Award. Tim Conroy and Brian Milner are the most recent players to go straight from high school to MLB, having debuted on the same day in 1978. [2] Dave Winfield is the most recent player to jump directly to MLB and subsequently be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
On September 24, 2020, Major League Baseball announced that it named the Frontier League an MLB Partner League. [11] This enables collaboration with MLB to jointly discuss marketing and promotional initiatives to grow, expand, and enhance the game of baseball. [12] For the 2021 season, the Frontier League announced it would be adding two new teams.
Major League Baseball. League Division Team Location Venue American East: Baltimore Orioles: Baltimore, Maryland ... Schaumburg Boomers: Schaumburg, Illinois ...
Schaumburg Flyers: Baseball Northern League 1993–2010 Southern Illinois Miners: Baseball Frontier League 2007–2021 Tri-Cities Blackhawks: Basketball National Basketball League 1946−1951 The team played 13 games as the Buffalo Bison during the 1946–47 season before moving to Moline, Illinois.
Wintrust Field is a stadium in Schaumburg, Illinois, formerly known as Boomers Stadium and Alexian Field. It is now home to the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League which began play in May 2012 and captured the first-ever professional baseball championship for Schaumburg in 2013.
After again making the postseason in 2011 with a 58–38 record, [7] but again falling to River City in the Division Series, Southern Illinois made the playoffs as a wild card entrant at 55–39, finishing one win ahead of Windy City and the Schaumburg Boomers. [8]
Both teams meet frequently during the regular season, and have shared some hostility towards each other. In 2012, the Windy City ThunderBolts met the Schaumburg Boomers in a regular season game and upset the Boomers by a score of 4–2. During the game, Boomers player Chase Fontaine was hit by pitch by ThunderBolts player Dustin Williams.